Shira A Legacy of Courage Author:Sharon Grollman From the Preface: Shira Putter died at the age of nine from a very rare form of diabetes. This book is about her life, her growing up, and her dying. The poems are her own. — From the Note to Parents and Teachers by Rabbi Harold Kushner: — Shira's story is more than an account of incurable illness and inevitable death. It is a story of a famil... more »y drawn closer together, strengthened rather than shattered by the experience of illness and death.« less